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take you down to paradise city, where the smoke is white and girls are not permitted. let's look where you find catholics in the world. this area. [laughter] now, the early favorite is the archbishop of milan angelo scola until john paul ii italians held the papacy for 50 0 years. it was the ultimate dynasty like the yankees only with less money. cardinal mark ouelette is a major front runner with one problem: he's a canadian. p.m. saying, i don't think god wants you to use a condom, aye, won't work. who wants a pope with a staff like this. [ laughter ] some are brgt on a third world pope like ghana's peter turkson who would be the first block pope of 1500 years sending a message of inclusion and virtually guaranteeing tyler perry's madea goes to rome. [cheers and applause] hello. hello. [laughter] folks, i say it's high time we had an american pope. [cheers and applause] after all -- [cheers and applause] after all, god is an american. that's why the intiebl in english. [ laughter ] and there's a great candidate. >> timothy dolan is the most powerful catholic in the country, the presi

looks like it is about to blow wide open into a national story in michigan. it's a story about the city of detroit. that's coming up. also, very important piece of the puzzle in terms of fixing the sequester thing that is due to happen in about a week. that fell into place today. and new documents released today show that something we really, really need to be very, very safe may in fact be very dangerous. new coast guard documents revealed on that subject today. and you've got michael moore here tonight for the interview. that is all ahead. it's a really big show. >>> but we need to start in brussels, where today the war in afghanistan started to end, or these where the constituent countries of nato started the make their commitments today for how much they would commit to that country as our war there starts to end. the headline news out of brussels today was a very terse statement from the pentagon spokesman. it was kind of strange. he was essentially clarifying, hey, whatever you heard from the germans earlier today, that was not true. this is the statement. the reports that the u.s. t

the world's cleanest gas turbines are now powering some of america's biggest cities. siemens. answers. >>> as republicans plot a new way forward that acknowledges changing demographics and a messaging problem when it comes to women and minorities, it's clear they're optimistically hoping earnest efforts towards immigration reform will help some of their problems. the white house's backup plan was leaked by someone over the weekend and if one wanted to read into the strategy, it's plausible that the obama administration saw a little too much progress coming out of the bipartisan senate gang of eight and they're worried that republicans like marco rubio might walk away with a little too much credit if meaningful immigration policy is actually passed. as laudable as republican efforts have been to walk a delicate pathway to immigration reform fraught with political dangers on every side, they might want to accept now they will never truly enjoy the fruits of their labor. democrats will make sure they get to bask in all the kudos and republicans are made to look like the begrudgi

particularly believe it when there's a democrat in the white house. wayne lapierre is the person who talked about federal agents after oklahoma city. so this is a man who's been allowed to have a platform on the national stage, even though he is a wing nut. and, finally, you have someone reich chris wallace who is certainly a more moderate voice of fox telling the truth and calling him out as ridiculous. and wayne lapierre is not prepared for this at all. >> guys, why don't they pay attention to the aclu? if you think about it, you can't do a stop and frisk law without fighting the aclu. you can't just go out and frisk them. these guys think somebody is coming to their house to take away their shotgun? there's no precedent for this. we are so scared to invade people's privacy in this country that the only time you get checked -- you don't get checked getting on a train. the only time is getting on an airplane. >> chris, you like american history. you reach hitch ard hoffstetter. from the very beginning, this country was born with this conflict between people who were fearful of big g

, and this unusual coalition that replaced the kind of south in the cities that had stayed in relatively stable condition from fdr to that. and we haven't seen anything since. the reagan revolution seems to have ended since reagan left the stage and what we've had in both parties is a failure of finding the right combination. >> the big difference between reagan and obama as far as coalition building is that the democratic party didn't react to reagan's aacceptedsy the way the republican party is reacting to oh bam in. you had a democratic party that was for a time being idealogically major yalgized but they didn't adopt a policy of structure. >> i don't think you can declare in the middle of administration that they have put together the coalition that's going to succeed it. >> and you can't claim that the president's re-election was an aligning event. he won actually with less percentage than he had in 2008. and, you know, republicans to like 30 governors, you know, a meaningful number of senators. >> but there may be a -- >> and control of one of the bodies of the united st

add one thing here. it doesn't matter if he goes to every city in the country and spends his entire state of the union talking about spending on infrastructure and things of that nature, but the republican-led house is not going to go along with that. this is really an act in futility. >> dwoent know how. to be honest, we don't know how much of the speech is going to push for infrastructure spending. god forbid we have better infrastructure spending. the economic piece is difficult for the president given the recovery has been really slow. we have the numbers from january. long-term unemployment has held steady. that is a lot of people who have been out of work for six months or more, and it is at its lowest rate since june 2009. that's a long-term number. the short-term and sort of standard unemployment numbers haven't budged considerably, and so the president does -- is in a tricky position in terms of highlighting an economic plan that legislatively may go nowhere, and if you talk about what he has done so far, there's a sense of perhaps malaise among the american public. >> in m

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projects in the world. enough power for a city the size of singapore for 50 years. what's it going to do to the planet? natural gas is the cleanest conventional fuel there is. we've got to be smart about this. it's a smart way to go. ♪ >> our power player of the week. he spends 60 to 90 minutes at th end of each day, logging each presidential activity. >> unofficial? yes, i guess it's unofficial. >> chris: stupid, we'll be right back. . >> it was a limit, covert program and now everybody knows about it, and, i think we need to see that this program is really run according to the american constitution. >> chris: senator dianne feinstein suggesting creation of a secret drone court where the president would have to go to get approval before putting terror suspects on his kill list and we're back now with the panel. congressman cotton for people who don't know you, you are an interesting figure. you went to harvard, you went to harvard law school, and then you spent fiv yea on active duty, on the front lines, in iraq and afghanistan and you have a lot of credibility on the issue on b

retreated to that bunk in the rural town of midland city, 20 miles north of the florida border. dikes has been hold up in that 6 by 8-foot shelter ever since. by all accounts, the little boy is very scared. and the mayor of the town says is he crying for his mother. so far, negotiations to save him have reportedly gone nowhere. according to a friend of the town's pastor, the boy's family is still remaining strong. >> they are getting a lot of love not only from the community but the whole nation actually is coming to and sending their support for this young boy. >> complicating matters, the a-year-old reportedly suffers from as berger's syndrome which is is on the spectrum of autism. fortunately they have been able to slide the boy's medication into the bunker through a pipe that sticks out of the ground. jonathan serrie is live on scene in midland, alabama tonight. jonathan, today we got to see the school bus involved in that fatal shooting. >> yeah. that's right. shep. that's because authorities were towing the school bus away back to the school bus barn. the school bus had b

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welcome president obama back home to chicago. like every major city in the country, chicago faces two critical challenges. the strength of our schools and the safety of our streets. our streets will only be as safe as our schools are strong and our families are sound. after decades of debate our children now have a full school day and a full school year equal to the measure of their potential. we have created five new high schools partnered with major tech companies to educate students all the way to a community college degree and focus on science and technology and math and engineering. just like the one the president mentioned in new york in his state of the union. new york has one, chicago has five, but who is counting. the reforms we have brought to early childhood education and our community colleges and our college to career program align with the president's agenda as he laid it out in the state of the union. for our children to live up to their potential, we have to live up to our obligations to them with greater investments in afterschool programs, job training, as well a

freedom jumps the tracks. that's where our cowboy urge need wyatt earp to come in and clean up dodge city. and that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "the ed show" with ed schultz starts right now. >>> good evening, americans, and welcome to "the ed show" from new york. meteors crashing into earth. congress goes on vacation again? and elizabeth warren is the new sheriff in town. all that and rachel maddow joins us tonight. buckle up. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. just like the meteor, slamming into russia, elizabeth warren is already banging heads in the senate. >> the question i really want to ask is about how tough you are. >> we'll show you how the new sheriff of wall street is outclassing her fellow freshmen, and how the new cop on the beat means trouble for big banks. >>> ten years after george w. bush dragged the country into war in iraq, and explosive new documentary narrated by rachel maddow details the trail of deception like never before. rachel joins me to preview the film tonight. >>> plus, the big congressional panel on john boehner's decision to go

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referred to properly as the commie-crat party. >> speaking in jefferson city, missouri, in 1950. the most famous tactic from mccarthy wasn't just name-calling, it was making oddly specific allegations for which he never produced evidence, but nevertheless demanded that people respond to these allegations because his allegations were so specific that they seemed very true, right? and anybody so accused must explain themselves against his secret. but again, oddly specific damning evidence. he famously told a crowd in wheeling, west virginia in february of 1950, quote, i have here in my hand a list of 205, a list of names that were made known to the secretary of state as being members of the communist party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the state department. 205 names on his list. so it must be true, right? it's not just a round number he made up, roughly 200 names. it's 205 names. that list must have come from somewhere. there must be some basis for this allegation that he is making. it can't just possibly be made up for political effect, right? there is a rea

big finish tonight, it was a very big finish for a meteor the size of a bus as it passed over the city in central russia during morning rush hour today. now, imagine this as you drive to work. a flash in the sky becoming more distinct until it is obvious you are witnessing a rare phenomenon. people saw a streak of light as a meteor passed through the earth's atmosphere, moving at a speed of 12,000 miles per second and bursting into a fireball. i wish i could have seen it. meteors are usually small and burn up completely as they hurdle towards the earth's surface. we even have a nickname for them. called shooting stars. today's meteor seemed much more imperfect and was captured by dozens of amateur videos. one thousand people were injured. most of them suffering cuts from flying glass. the damage and the injuries were the end result of a sonic boom. >> the blast was strong enough to blow out windows, doors, a local school teacher said that kind of light doesn't happen in life, only at the end of the world. city administrators said we thought an airplane had crashed. children were sent home

, he lifted the city out of its darkest days and set it on course for an incredible comeback. we will miss him dearly. his wisdom will forever be part of the city he loved so much. his spirit will live on not only at city hall and the bridge that bears his name, but all across the five boroughs. the former mayor passed away this morning, at 88 years old, due to congestive heart failure. justin, in maryland, on the independent line. caller:, for taking my call. -- thank you for taking my call. would give hillary clinton a -- i would give hillary clinton a d. i do not understand how somebody in a position of power with so much information about the situation going on in other countries could ever send a force of people into a country that they know is unstable with the same amount of security that they would send to a place like france or germany. for my part, hillary clinton has left much to be desired for her position. i think possibly the whole incident that went down could have costar -- cost her her political career as far as her ambitions are. host: two stores connected to a

her out of this race because of her gun control position. another story out of the windy city. chicago is declaring a new public enemy number one, who it is next: for you. it's like a sexy sandwich. [ anouncer ] compare new griddle melts yourself. just $4. it's like a sexy sandwich. it's an epic breakfast sandwich. >> al capone's plane is arriving in chicago. a sedan is waiting to take him to prison and still sporting his big white hat probably out of style when he gets a chance to wear it again. that's the end of mr. capone and last glimpse of the outside world for many a day to come. >> megyn: wow, chicago in the 1930's. al capone as officially public enemy number one. the city was overrun by mob crime and until capone was caught and shipped off to alcatraz. now for the first time since prohibiti prohibition, chicago declared a new public enemy number one. mike tobin with that story. >> reporter: you can't afford that when you hear that title public enemy number one, it draws to mind the images of the chicago mob. al capone known for ruthlessness, and controlling the cops and the rum

today. i think that's the challenge. the president said he's going to target 20 cities. but we are, where ever we are, must become part of the solution or are we a part of the problem? we need people as maureen forte has said, from the bottom up that where the laws are there, where other things are there, that is fine. but we need to all be part of change in the mentality, change in the thoughts, changing the dreams. of young people to understand gun violence and destruction is not something they have to live with. they can be something no matter what their background. no matter what their circumstance. we all have to put our shoulder to the wheel. there's been 1833 people killed since newtown. we all have to be committed, not just look to the white house. he's got to start in your house and my house. thanks for watching. i'm a.m. sharpton. have a great weekend. "hardball" starts right now. >>> cruising for a bruising. let's play "hardball." ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. as butch cassidy once asked, who are these guys? what

this city, and 65 of those victims were 18 and under. so that's the equivalent of a newtown every four months. and that's precisely why the overwhelming majority of americans are asking for some common sense proposals to make it harder for criminals to get their hands on a gun. >> now, i think that's smart. welcome back. of course, that was president obama speaking earlier this afternoon in chicago, his hometown. stemming gun violence has become a major second term agenda item for the president, of course. some of the most memorable moments from his state of the union address actually dealt with giving victims of gun >> now, i think that's smart. welcome back. of course, that was president obama speaking earlier this afternoon in chicago, his hometown. stemming gun violence has become a major second term agenda item for the president, of course. some of the most memorable moments from his state of the union address actually dealt with giving victims of gun o, j. it seems to me since the city congress people, most of them democrats, tend to vote for gun control because they've got

educators in newtown. last year there were 443 murders with a firearm on the streets of this city, and 65 of those victims were 18 and under. so that's the equivalent of a newtown every four months. and that's precisely why the overwhelming majority of americans are asking for some common sense proposals to make it harder for criminals to get their hands on a gun. >> now, i think that's smart. welcome back. of course, thafers president obama speaking earlier this afternoon in chicago, his hometown, stemming gun violence has become a major second term agenda item for the president, of course. some of the most memorable moments from his state of the union address actually dealt with giving victims of gun violence the opportunity to have congress vote on new gun control measures. they deserve a vote, he said it many times. he faces strong opposition from the nra of course despite wayne lapierre's oven apocalyptic rhetoric. enter mayor michael bloomberg of new york who is putting his money where his money is actually. he has started a super pac to back politicians who speak out on gun control

mcfadden's brilliant obituary in today's "new york times." he called koch the master showman of city hall who parlayed shrewd political instincts and plenty of chutzpah in three tumultuous terms of mayor of new york with all the tenacity, zest, and combativeness that personified his city of golden dreams. he used to walk the streets of new york asking how am i doing? ed koch was 88. [ speaking foreign language ] >> well, this is going to be a familiar topic around here. we're back. that was a clip from the documentary "the gatekeepers" which opens in select cities today. the film looks at israel's legendary shin bet, its intelligence agency and interviews six of its former heads. they sound a lot more like chuck hagel than bibi netanyahu. has left to human suffering on the part of the palestinians and has been banned from israel itself. like president obama, they argue for the need to engage your enemies. they say you can't make peace through military means alone. in order, these men wouldn't fit in very well in the republican party in the u.s. right now. they might even get badgered by l

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thinker and i happened to be watching megan kelly when i heard alarming news about the folks at al jazeera america, the people who just bought this channel. >> there is a real anti-american bias there and yet they're about to infiltrate america. >> they're expanding to eight cities, one of them being detroit, michigan. it is a large community of muslim americans where sleeper cells have been detected. >> john: megan kelly, how can someone so smart and so pretty have a show that's so stupid and so ugly? but if this little bit of tv gold illustrates something, it is why fox news is a mecca for people who hate mecca. so let's get a few things straight. first, the correspondent complained that petro dorals are funding this network. i love it when the people who brought us george w. bush warn us of the evils of oil money. so i could tell you about all of the petrochemical dollars fox news boss mourdock makes from his investments but i don't want to upset him because i don't feel like getting my phone hacked. i'll mention a name you don't hear often on fox. that of saudi arabian prince c

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